scrappy
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Wax figures of scrappy, earnest young communists gesticulate during a 1921 meeting frozen in time, debating how best to bring Marxism to China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
“So we do get scrappy, and I think that’s what sets the I.E. apart from places like L.A. and O.C.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
By 1999, King had been awarded an MBE for services to music as the Mobos grew from scrappy underdog to music industry fixture, holding its own against the long-established Brit Awards.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
In 1996, I met Jeff Bezos in their scrappy offices, and he was very frugal and ambitious.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026
Cora pictured her, scrappy and determined, a survivor of famine and the hard relocation.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
I made a slightly scrappier version based on what I had around.
From Salon ● May 12, 2026
Serrano started strongly with sharp body work and accurate left hands from her southpaw stance, before the contest developed into a scrappier affair than expected.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2026
Verizon needs to become scrappier and less bureaucratic, Schulman said at a WSJ Leadership Institute event this week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
The scrappier corners of the avant-garde are no longer off limits to the mainstream press.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2024
"Doug, am I any scrappier than the rest of them?"
From Judith of the Godless Valley by Morrow, Honoré
This is the probably the scrappiest I had to be since "Colma: The Musical."
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2023
It was a long week of matches, featuring some of the scrappiest Overwatch I’ve seen this season.
From The Verge ● Jul. 25, 2022
The whole city has benefited by encouraging restaurants of all sorts, from the most well-off to the leanest and scrappiest, to lend their own flavor to public spaces.
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2020
But Charlie Brown opted, instead, for the scrappiest of green trees, throwing shade to artifice and commercialism and embracing authenticity and the true spirit of Christmas.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2019
Again Travis had only the scrappiest information to draw upon.
From The Defiant Agents by Norton, Andre
